From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 20 14:57:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20329 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:57:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19898 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:53:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA17784; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:52:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Shawn Ramsey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress PRO/100 problem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > Since upgrading our FreeBSD servers to Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B cards, > > > we have been experiencing minor pauses, for a second or more on telnet > > > sessions. Is there anything I can do to maybe correct this, such as > > > forcing a certain mode(half duplex, 10mb) ?? > > > > That is a good idea; do it in the EtherExpress setup program. > > I think I found the problem. It was sharing the same IRQ as another > network card. I took the card out, since the lame as shit BIOS(courtesy of > Phoenix) won't let you change it. Would this cause something like this to > happen?? Two PCI ones? Odd, PCI is supposed to arbitrate that. Sounds like a firmware bug. I had an old Phoenix BIOS (4.01 or thereabouts) that you had to manually set the IRQs for the PCI bus. Took a bit to figure out which slot was which but you knew where everything was. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message